Bright Sword: This unit is really ruthless

Although Zhang Ling was a little unhappy.

Not only did the enemy refuse to surrender, they even dared to fight back.

But the result is good after all.

Luoyang was captured by the independent division.

Soon, Zhang Ling ordered to clear out all these 500 Japanese devils.

The remaining puppet troops were subject to investigation.

As long as you have not oppressed the common people, your hands will not be stained with blood.

Basically, they were all let go.

And their hands are stained with the blood of ordinary people.

Don't even think about running away.

Therefore, some of these Wei troops were directly shot.

The others were detained.

Zhang Ling liberated the three major cities.

Immediately send a message to the boss in Taiyuan.

When I learned that the three major cities of Luoyang, Kaifeng and Zhengzhou were liberated.

The boss was also very excited.

There is no need to explain what it means when these three cities fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

It is now basically certain that the entire North China is basically in the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

The overall power of the Japanese invaders has been driven out by the Eighth Route Army.

Now the Japs want to fight the Eighth Route Army in North China.

That's basically impossible.

Because of this, Zhang Ling basically no longer worries about the risk of the three cities in Luoyang falling into the hands of the Japanese again.

Now is the time for the independent division to begin expanding and continuing to improve its strength.

And in Zhongtiao Mountain.

At this time, the National Army still failed to drive away the Japanese.

Not only did they fail to defeat the Japanese, but Tang Huaiyuan was even defeated directly.

Li Shilong and others from Majiadian broke through and disappeared.

The entire Battle of Zhongtiao Mountains.

It lasted less than a month and ended with the defeat of the National Army.

Moreover, this assumes that Zhang Ling and his independent division have already captured Luoyang and other cities.

It was only when these 30,000 Japanese soldiers were retreating that they learned that Luoyang and other cities had been captured by the Eighth Route Army's Independent Division.

The Japanese were so frightened that they retreated from other mountainous areas overnight.

However, Zhang Ling was no longer interested in chasing these Japs.

Now is a golden opportunity to expand the independent division.

In the past, Zhang Ling only dared to dream of increasing the number of independent divisions to 100,000 people.

But now, five hundred thousand people is not something that cannot be considered.

Anyway, if we can become an army group.

That's actually possible.

Soon, big cities such as Taiyuan and Luoyang were in hand.

The Eighth Route Army's troops in northwestern Shanxi have basically been greatly expanded.

Zhang Ling's independent division expanded the fastest.

First of all, Zhang Ling’s independent division has the best food.

And the troops are well-equipped.

Not only does each brigade have its own independent artillery regiment and tank regiment.

There are also a large number of light and heavy weapons.

In addition, the soldiers were also issued new individual equipment.

For example, cotton-padded clothes for winter and camouflage uniforms for summer.

Each soldier has four sets.

That means you can wear them interchangeably.

This is for soldiers of this era.

The Eighth Route Army Independent Division is simply the dream unit of the rich.

So much so that Li Yunlong's New 1st Regiment learned about the treatment of the Independent Division.

Li Yunlong simply came directly to find Zhang Ling.

I sincerely hope that I can be incorporated into the independent division.

After all, it was impossible for Old Li to lead his troops to find food on their own.

The food is not good enough. It’s better to follow the independent division. There is food and drink, which is better than anything else.

But Zhang Ling would definitely not agree.

No way.

This is not a question of whether he agrees or not, but that the independent division has its own organization.

What’s the point of Li Yunlong coming?

Find your own way.

The independent division cannot support the iron triangle of northwest Shanxi.

In the following period of time, the entire North China region basically entered into a vigorous expansion and reconstruction movement.

Many big cities were occupied by the Eighth Route Army.

It also made the Eighth Route Army's finances more abundant.

This was also the first time that Yan'an issued instructions.

Reorganize the entire Eighth Route Army in North China within one year.

Within two years, liberate the entire Northern Dragon Kingdom and attack the Northeast at the same time.

Destroy all the Japanese Kwantung Army in the Northeast.

However, this goal is too simple for Zhang Ling.

Because Zhang Ling knows very well.

As long as the independent division can be expanded to 300,000 people.

Yes, three hundred thousand people.

Then we rely on the common people to transport logistics.

Zhang Ling can be confident that he can directly fight his way to the Northeast region.

Quickly clear the entire Northeast war zone and advance the establishment of the new Dragon Kingdom.

It is now November of the 40th year, and the Chinese New Year is just a few months away.

The independent division now occupies most of the territory in North China.

As for the Nationalist Army, the defeat in Zhongtiao Mountain directly led to the Nationalist Army's almost withdrawal from North China.

Only a few cities were retained.

The others are basically from the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese forces were completely concentrated in places like Beijing and Tianjin.

Because of the support of the Kwantung Army, the Japanese in places like Peking and Tianjin remained strong.

Even to prevent the Eighth Route Army from attacking Tianjin.

The Japanese fleet simply drove straight to Tianjin.

But all this is nothing to Zhang Ling.

Now Zhang Ling has started to train pilots for the independent division.

These were prisoners captured by the Japanese.

After ideological work, basically everyone was willing to stay and train pilots for the Eighth Route Army.

Zhang Ling also specially exchanged some training aircraft.

Because of the limited fuel supply, it was impossible to fly to the Japanese-occupied area.

Therefore, Zhang Ling was completely confident that these Japanese pilots would train the pilots of the independent division.

Through this battle, Zhang Ling will gain points.

Almost 2000 aircraft were exchanged.

Among them, there are 1500 fighters and 500 bombers.

Of course, these aircraft are also first-generation jet aircraft.

Although it is a first generation jet aircraft.

But it is definitely much better than the aircraft of this era.

Especially for the little devil's plane, it can be said that jet aircraft definitely have a strong advantage.

After exchanging the aircraft, a large amount of gasoline was also exchanged.

Then, Zhang Ling used the remaining hundreds of thousands of points to exchange a large number of weapons for the newly expanded independent division.

Finally, after three months of expansion, the total number of independent divisions now reaches 3.

This allowed Zhang Ling's independent division to be upgraded to the First Army in North China.

The reason why Zhang Ling's army is called the First Army is because the entire North China is now defended by the combat effectiveness of Zhang Ling's First Army.

This First Army had nearly 4000 cannons alone.

There are almost 3000 tanks.

Not to mention nearly 100,000 mortars of various types.

There are hundreds of thousands of light and heavy weapons.

In addition, it also has a large amount of logistical and medical supplies.

It also has a large number of military warehouses.

It can be said that Zhang Ling’s First Army has become the most powerful fighting force of the Eighth Route Army in the North to liberate the Northern Dragon Kingdom.